Victoria Briggs
victoriabriggs.bsky.social
Victoria Briggs
@victoriabriggs.bsky.social
Gen X-er. N.London. Third sector comms lead. Words, music, news & culture. Views all my own.
Best read of the summer - big hearted storytelling with Steinbeck vibes and characters you don’t want to say goodbye to.

#booksky 📚💙
August 22, 2025 at 11:51 AM
No, I won’t be buying a mattress that’s the price of a small landholding.
August 22, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Hoovered this one up in a weekend binge.

Masterclass in storytelling and perspective shift.

#booksky 💙📚
June 3, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Key takeaway: keep a bottle of bleach on hand for when the cerebral organoids get uppity 😱
May 27, 2025 at 8:36 PM
As memento moris go, this one’s a beaut.

#booksky 💙 📚
May 22, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Reposted by Victoria Briggs
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon
April 28, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Don’t you just miss the raw, unsaccharine, joyful 90s?
Bjork performing "Army of Me" with Skunk Anansie on Top of the Pops (1995)
April 27, 2025 at 8:04 AM
If all London pubs had live Tube updates installed then the two occasions I’ve missed flights might well have been averted.

In the Arnos Arms: pints & the Piccadilly line.
April 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM
RIP Tim Radford, who was - in the words of Holden Caulfield - a real prince.

His ‘manifesto for the simple scribe’, written in another time, remains total gold 👇
February 14, 2025 at 11:50 AM
As sublime at 50 as the day it dropped.

See you in October, Ms Patricia Lee.

#Horses
February 13, 2025 at 9:56 PM
We’ve either entered Revelations end-times territory, or ‘suspected’ is doing some very heavy lifting indeed.
February 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Since when did charity TV ads come this good? Beautiful, uplifting work from the EY Foundation - complete with dissonant guitars and Derek Jarman 'Jubilee' vibes. All the more impressive coming from a non-household brand: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEsi...
Access their skills
YouTube video by EY Foundation
www.youtube.com
January 28, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Long time since I’ve been stopped in my tracks by a TV ad but the Papaya one is such a cinematic throwback to when ads could be something like an art form that I can’t stop watching it (killer soundtrack helps of course…)

m.youtube.com/watch?v=23_M...
Papaya: Swing Tv Commercial Ad USA December 2024
YouTube video by Valleywood
m.youtube.com
January 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Octopus overlords a definite step-up on the current variety running the show

www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-n...
Clever octopuses in 'pole position' to dominate planet if humans die out
Although the octopus is unlikely to develop into a full land animal, it is clever enough to extend the 30 minutes it can live out of water to develop new hunting methods
www.mirror.co.uk
November 15, 2024 at 12:44 PM